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you are being overly pickyOriginally posted by doodab View Postbut without their pilots Britain may have fallen.
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but without their pilots Britain may have fallen.Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostI admire them. I admire what they achieved.
But in my honest opinion they should not have defended the border and the vulnerable cities. If they had pulled back and defended Warsaw in depth, with a few belts of fortifications, and kept their air force intact in the east (rather than have their airfields overrun)
they will not have won, but they will have put a serious question mark over Adolph and inflicted some big hits in the process.

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I admire them. I admire what they achieved.Originally posted by doodab View PostDo you like to find fault with perfectly good polls for no reason?
But in my honest opinion they should not have defended the border and the vulnerable cities. If they had pulled back and defended Warsaw in depth, with a few belts of fortifications, and kept their air force intact in the east (rather than have their airfields overrun)
they will not have won, but they will have put a serious question mark over Adolph and inflicted some big hits in the process.
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So that's a yes then.Originally posted by evilagent View PostIf the polls were perfectly good, there would be no reason to find fault.
If you find a fault, it's because they fail the "perfectly good" test.
Every fault generally has a reason attached to it.
Every perceived fault described usually illustrates the pollsters failure to consider a wider set of possibilities.
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I find fault with polls which have no appropriate answer for me, or polls which have ranges which overlap, or polls which have ranges that miss border values, or polls which have an ambiguous question or question that contracdicts the thread title, or polls which fail to provide an adequate, and preferably amusing, AndyW option.
This poll passes. Just.
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If the polls were perfectly good, there would be no reason to find fault.Originally posted by doodab View PostDo you like to find fault with perfectly good polls for no reason?
If you find a fault, it's because they fail the "perfectly good" test.
Every fault generally has a reason attached to it.
Every perceived fault described usually illustrates the pollsters failure to consider a wider set of possibilities.
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The point of a poll is to pick one of the pollsters options. If you want to turn a yes/no question into a 500 word essay then there is a "create new thread" button you can useOriginally posted by vetran View Postif your poll option miss choices you never thought of then you can be sure you will get a good telling off!
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if your poll option miss choices you never thought of then you can be sure you will get a good telling off!
Why doesn't your poll have?
1. I'm just precise its not my fault you are sloppy typical Man/Woman/Chimp delete as appropriate.
3. This poll is biased against Aardvarks.
77. Where is I am far richer than Yow option?
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WHS; pickiness is a context dependent attribute.Originally posted by BigRed View PostThese yes/no polls are a bit limited in choice. Can we have something with a few more options?
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These yes/no polls are a bit limited in choice. Can we have something with a few more options?
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